History EvilCounterpart / AnimeAndManga

** From early in the series we have Udo Jine, who was a hitokiri during the Bakumatsu like Kenshin. Unlike Kenshin though, Jine is an AxCrazy BloodKnight that was unable to give up his life as a killer when the Bakumatsu ended.

** From early in the series we have Udo Jine, who was a hitokiri during the Bakumatsu like Kenshin. Unlike Kenshin though, Jine is an AxCrazy BloodKnight that was unable to give up the life of a killer when the Bakumatsu ended.

* Souji Mikage is one to Utena herself in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': both are duelists despite not being on the Student Council, both duel with sabers, and both fight for the sake of a loved one: Mamiya in Souji's case, and Anthy in Utena's.

** [[spoiler:Bertolt the Colossal Titan]] to Armin since both are the meekest and least skilled members of their groups.

* Yugi's opponent Pandora in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' used a alternate art version of Dark Magician that seemed to be an evil version of Yugi's own, having blood-red robes and a maddening expression, compared the the royal purple attire and gentle face of Yugi's version.

** [[spoiler:Bertholdt the Colossal Titan]] to Armin since both are the meekest and least skilled members of their groups.

** Maybe it's the other way around. Alexander Andersson may be a psychotic BloodKnight, but he cares for the children at his orphanage. The Captain is one of the noblest characters in the series, but he works for [[ThoseWackyNazis Millennium]]. Given that Alucard is a VillainProtagonist whose sole heroic trait is his UndyingLoyalty to his master, [[BlackAndGrayMorality it's quite vague as to who the ''evil'' counterpart is supposed to be]].

* Gauron himself is quite similar to Sousuke. They're both AlmightyJanitor soldiers with little allegiance to anyone except their own desires(at first). While Sousuke develops genuine bonds with other, Gauron is driven by his depraved interest in Sousuke.
* In ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', the whole Varia is meant to be tailored as being {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Vongola family. Xanxus is Tsuna's counterpart, both having Dying Will flame powers and both competing for the same position as the boss. The only one that is unclear exactly which is the EvilCounterpart is [[WildCard Mukuro]] to Marmon - especially since Marmon is mainly motivated by money and isn't nearly as [[NietzscheWannabe cynical]] or [[AxCrazy scary]].

** This carried over to at least one video game adaptation, ''SailorMoonAnotherStory''. In that game, while it brought back all their old foes to that point as bosses, the main villains (other than the BigBad) were the Oppositio Senshi, 5 teenage girls with powers mirroring the Inner Sehshi, and names based on Babylonian gods and goddesses: Sin (god of the moon), Nabu (god of Wisdom), Nergal (god of war), Marduk (god of thunder and leader of the gods), and Ishtar (goddess of love).

** And now [[CuteClumsyGirl Chelia Blendy]] to [[{{Dojikko}} Wendy Marvell]], what with Chelia being [[spoiler: the Sky God Slayer.]] She is to Wendy what [[spoiler: Zancrow]] was to Natsu. The ''Evil'' part of the equation is pretty much debatable--she's actually quite a nice person.

** In the anime, Knives is an outright [[CreepyChild child sociopath]] whose hatred is as much about disdain as fear, and Vash's thought patterns come nowhere near mirroring his. They still have a lot in common, though. Being twin brothers and the only members of their species and all. Also, for some reason this version of Knives can [[UncannySymmetry keep up]] at GunKata with a [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]] who's been fighting for his life for a hundred years. It punches up the symbolism.

** Wrath is an EvilCounterpart of Ling. Both cover {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s and impressive swordsmanship with a front of ObfuscatingStupidity, and Ling's actual PapaWolf attitude toward his friends and subjects is mirrored in Wrath's ''pretensions'' to being a FatherToHisMen - in reality, he really couldn't give a damn about his subjects. Also, just as Wrath is a human-turned homunculus, Ling gets turned into the second Greed. However, while Wrath lost his human identity in his transformation, Ling manages to maintain his consciousness and serves as TheConscience to Greed, since he willingly gave in. Wrath started life as the 12th candidate for Fuhrer and Ling is the 12th son of the Emperor.

-->'''[[spoiler:Lordgenome]]''': There once was a man who fought like you, not realizing his actions would bring about the destruction of humanity.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' throws this trope at us a few times. Reitei Lyon (an ice mage trained by the same master) is this to Gray, in addition to RivalTurnedEvil. Gajeel, the Iron Dragon Slayer, is introduced as this to Natsu, the Fire Dragon Slayer, but after a HeelFaceTurn he becomes Natsu's [[TheRival rival]]. Currently, Zancrow of Grimmore Heart is Natsu's, being a psychotic fire mage [[spoiler: who can also eat flames like Natsu.]]
** Angel of the Oracion Seis seems to be a pretty blatant one of the protagonist Lucy; they're both celestial spirit mages that possess Golden keys. While Angel is overwhelmingly powerful, Lucy is still relatively naive and relies more on skill. The biggest difference seems to be in the treatment of their spirits. Lucy treasures all of them and treats them well, while Angel is willing to deliberately injure them to achieve victory.
** Master Jose of Phantom Lord was one for Makarov, before it became [[CurbStompBattle painfully apparent]] that Jose couldn't stand up to him in a fight. Most of his magic was [[DarkIsEvil darkness based]], while Makarov's spells (other than his size increase) are [[LightIsGood light based]]. The next one is [[LightIsNotGood Master Hades]] of Grimore Heart. [[spoiler: In addition to being the previous guildmaster of Fairy Tail, and Makarov's former mentor, he's the only one in the entire series to have beaten Makarov in a fair fight.]]

** Erza Scarlett has one with [[spoiler:Erza Knightwalker ]]
** And now [[CuteClumsyGirl Chelia Blendy]] to [[{{Dojikko}} Wendy Marvel]], what with Cheila being [[spoiler: The Sky God Slayer.]] She's to Wendy what [[spoiler: Zancrow]] was to Natsu. The ''Evil'' part of the equation is much more up to debate right now however.
** Sabertooth gives us a lot of ones where the evil part is debatable. Sting and Rogue, the dragonslayers, for Natsu and Gajeel, respectably. [[spoiler: Orga, who uses lightning magic, for Laxus]]. And Rufus who's magic is creation based is a counterpart for Gray. An unusual one is the Sabertooth guildmaster, Jiemma, who seems to be what [[spoiler: Laxus would have turned into had he not been stopped from his takeover attempt by Natsu and Gajeel.]]

** Shishio's follower Soujirou is also one to Kenshin. Kenshin endured a sad childhood and was orphaned before being adopted by a master who trained him in swordsmanship. In personality, Kenshin didn't start out all that happy but eventually took on a cheerful ObfuscatingStupidity. As a dark mirror to Kenshin, Soujirou grew up in an abusive family and found an EvilMentor in Shishio, who gave him the encouragement to become a SelfMadeOrphan. In terms of personality, Soujirou has a more extreme version of Kenshin's forced cheerfuless, being a StepfordSmiler who is incapable of showing (and to an extent feeling) any emotion.
** To complement this, Shishio serves as one for Kenshin's master Hiko Sejuro. Both are powerful and influential mentors who inspire ideologies in their pupils. While they're both hardened in some way, Hiko holds some optimism towards Kenshin's path. Shishio, while he does care about him, brainwashes Sojiro into his ideology. Hiko comically abuses Kenshin but respects his pupil's decisions.

* Tullece from the third ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' movie, ''Tree of Might''. His entire character was based on the idea of what kind of person Goku would have grown up to become if he had never cracked his skull and gotten amnesia.

** In the manga, Knives has [[TheyWouldCutYouUp a much better motivation]] for [[KillAllHumans turning on humanity]], and at the time Vash [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reacted]] with the same level of horror and rage, but his first impulse was toward ''suicide''. Rem got in the way, got hurt, and the need to help her snapped Vash out of it, and shaped pretty much the rest of his life. This meant that Knives woke up without her there to steady him--but maybe that wouldn't have helped, since rather than freak out, he pretended to have suffered EasyAmnesia until he had the chance to stage a slaughter.

*** [[spoiler: Slightly subverted as he is a DeathSeeker as well]].

** Also, both Grimjow and Ichigo's themes are determination and the need to become strong, and the loneliness of power.

** Subverted with Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Szayelaporro Granz. To paraphrase [[RenAndStimpy Stimpy]]: "It's the EvilCounterpart... and the ''really'' EvilCounterpart!" The only real difference between these two {{Mad Scientist}}s is that Szayelaporro, having long believed he has achieved perfection, has no real goal except pointless sadism, while Mayuri does what he does in the name of knowledge and improvement.
** [[DeathSeeker Nnoitra]] is what [[BloodKnight Kenpachi]] would turn into if he just gave up on life. Kenpachi loves to fight, puts handicaps on himself to make the fight last longer and give his opponents a chance, and typically leaves his enemies alive so that they can come after him again; he's crazy, but in a fun kind of way. Nnoitra on the other hand, is completely AxeCrazy, hates everybody, has a misogynistic streak that's definitely absent from Kenpachi, uses dirty tricks, leaves a mile-wide trail of dead bodies behind him, and is looking to die. Their battle (and twin eyepatches) nicely emphasise their similarities and differences.
** In fact, 2/3 of the Arrancar seem to be evil counterparts of one member of the Gotei 13 or another: Ggio Vega and Shaolin "Soifon" Fon are both agile, fast and athletic melee fighters, who are generally calm, loyal and firm, and seem to have a fairly low view on their comrades. They even ''look'' similar, but where Soifon is a mostly cold and professional {{Tsundere}} that ''seriously'' [[DefrostingIceQueen fangirls]] over her [[LesYay female]] idol, Ggio is a cocky and sarcastic taunter with a short fuse and 'bit of a boastful air to him, and the respect he harbors for his male commander appears to be more platonic. Furthermore, Soifon's antagonism towards her subordinates is mainly a pseudo-facade, her way of toughening them up, while Ggio appeared genuinely indifferent to his fellow [[EliteMook Fraccion]], barely reacting - if at all to their deaths.

** [[BrilliantButLazy Coyote Starrk]] is kind of a subversion. He's clearly the lazy and apathetic counterpart to the easy-going and carefree [[BunnyEarsLawyer Shunsui Kyoraku]], but the only "bad" thing he's done so far is lazily fight against Kyoraku, and then, he offered to back out of. Come to think of it, between offering to pretend-fight him and taking one of the weakest arrancar in Aizen's army as his underling ([[spoiler:or so we think, she's actually his zanpakuto]]), [[AntiVillain the only reason he's evil at all is because he's on the villains' side]]. He's Neutral Lazy to Kyoraku's NeutralGood, until he [[LetsGetDangerous releases]]. The annoyance of having to go all-out turned lazy into pissed, [[IAmNotLeftHanded though apparently not pissed enough to use his stronger attacks yet]].
*** That Starrk decided to join Aizen simply because he wanted comrades, seemingly irrespective of what said companions got up to, could be seen as bad enough. The 'evil' aspect specifically is harder to argue for when he's driven not by malice but by loneliness; it does not justify his actions/association, but his motivation is an odd one for a [[AntiVillain supposed villain]]. His reason for fighting is one any number of Heroes adhere to -- to protect his friends. Kyoraku has similar motivations and is [[CombatPragmatist unscrupulous]] about what he needs to do to achieve them. Starrk's internal monologue makes it painfully obvious that his reluctance was genuine and he'd sooner be friends with the captain, but no such insight is given into Kyoraku's thoughts on the matter, leaving the extent of their similarities ambiguous.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Father is Hohenheim's EvilCounterpart. He's also even [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weirder than him]]. Toward the end, Father becomes more like an evil counterpart to [[spoiler:Ed, as his bishonen "God" form looks like young Hohenheim/Ed except with Father's cruel eyes, and Father's arrogance and obsession with gaining knowledge at all costs is a dark reflection of Ed's tendency toward {{Pride}}]].

** Kimblee comes across as something of an evil counterpart to Scar. Both have destruction-based powers and invoke LightIsNotGood (although Scar is at worst an AntiVillain). Also, Kimblee "created" Scar, delivering the injury that gave him his nickname, and the role of Kimblee and other State Alchemists in carrying out genocide against Scar and his people is the motivation for Scar's revenge.

* In ''FullMetalPanic'', there's the CreepyTwins Yu Fan and Yu Lan, who are shown to have been through extremely similar wars and circumstances as Sousuke. Just like Sousuke, they're [[TheStoic rather emotionless]], extremely loyal to the person that took care of them, and their occupations are very alike. Main difference? Sousuke was adopted by [[AFatherToHisMen Kalinin]] and the twins were adopted by [[AxCrazy Gauron]]. Funnily enough, Gauron (as elaborated on in the novels) is revealed to have actually tried to take Sousuke when [[{{Shotacon}} Sousuke was young]], but Sousuke [[GenreSavvy refused]]. 5 years later, and Gauron is still [[StalkerWithACrush fantasizing and obsessing]] over "beautiful" Sousuke. If there's anything Sousuke did right when he was young, it was knowing who to accept as his father figure.

** Then, mayby it's the other way around...

* BusouRenkin's Kazuki has his AntiVillain counterpart Victor. Papillon is also the same as Kazuki in that they are motivated by the concept of a "second life". But while Kazuki was brought back to life by Renkin, Chouno wants to become immortal by becoming [[ImmortalityImmorality Homunculus]].

** Following Accelerator's HeelFaceTurn, Teitoku Kakine becomes ''his'' evil counterpart. Both have won the SuperpowerLottery and their powers are somewhat related, both are extremely sadistic, and both were on an AGodAmI journey. But even when Accelerator was evil, he adhered to EvenEvilHasStandards, while Kakine gleefully tortures anyone in his path. Also, Accelerator wanted to become a god to get people to leave him alone, while Kakine wanted to be one because of his incredible ego.

* Hei in ''DarkerThanBlack'' has a couple of characters who qualify as evil counterparts: There is Wei, a fellow Chinese {{Badass}} whose psychopathy contrasts with Hei's relative restraint. Like Hei, Wei is also one of the few contractors shown to be capable of emotion, but his are all negative to Hei's positive ones. Another character [[spoiler: Nick]] has the same power as Hei, the same nice guy persona, and has the same goal of finding his DeadLittleSister, but he wants to achieve it through murdering people; Harvest, the BigBad of the interquel manga has the opposite power to Hei- while Hei's power involves creating material on an atomic level, Harvest's involves destroying it; Mina in season 2 wears a similar costume/shares similar weaponry to Hei and is also TheStoic, but is also a dark reflection of Kirihara, sharing a similar background of being TheOjou.

* In the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, Father is Hohenheim's EvilCounterpart. He's also even [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weirder than him]]. This means that in both the anime and manga version, the Elric brothers eventually have to fight the {{Doppelganger}} of one of their parents. Toward the end of the manga, Father becomes more like an evil counterpart to [[spoiler: Ed, as his bishonen "God" form looks like young Hohenheim/Ed except with Father's cruel eyes, and Father's arrogance and obsession with gaining knowledge at all costs is a dark reflection of Ed's tendency toward {{Pride}}.]]
** Wrath is an EvilCounterpart of Ling. Both cover {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s and impressive swordsmanship with a front of ObfuscatingStupidity, and Ling's actual PapaWolf attitude toward his friends and subjects is mirrored in Wrath's ''pretensions'' to being a FatherToHisMen- in reality, he really couldn't give a damn about his subjects. Also, just as Wrath is a human-turned homunculus, Ling gets turned into the second Greed. However, while Wrath lost his human identity in his transformation, Ling manages to maintain his consciousness and serves as TheConscience to Greed. Wrath started life as the 12th candidate for Fuhrer and Ling is the 12th son of the Emperor.
** Kimblee in the manga comes across as something of an evil counterpart to Scar. Both have destruction-based powers and invoke LightIsNotGood (although Scar is at worst an AntiVillain). Also, Kimblee "created" Scar, delivering the injury that gave him his nickname, and the role of Kimblee and other State Alchemists in carrying out genocide against Scar and his people is the motivation for Scar's revenge.
*** To support this argument, look at the scene where [[spoiler: Scar is standing on the roof with Kimblee on the ground, with Scar himself pointing how their situations were reversed from in Ishval. Also, Scar moved on past his focus on revenge while Kimblee's obsession towards completing his job never waned]].
*** A recent chapter seems to give Scar another evil counterpart in Bradley, who describes both of them as nameless warriors, and again, you have the perpetrator of genocide versus the victim of genocide.

* ''Anime/ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'': [[AntiHero ACCELERATOR]] AND FLIPPING [[TheHero TOUMA KAMIYAN!!!]]

* In ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'', the whole Varia is meant to be tailored as being {{Evil Counterpart}}s to the Vongola family. Xanxus is Tsuna's counterpart, both having Dying Will flame powers and both competing for the same position as the boss. The only one that is unclear exactly which is the EvilCounterpart is [[WildCard Mukuro]] to Marmon - especially since Marmon is mainly motivated by money and isn't nearly as [[NietzscheWannabe cynical]] or [[AxCrazy scary]].

* ''ArcadeGamerFubuki'' has a rival, who has her OWN version of the [[UnderwearOfPower Passion Panties]] except hers are [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience black]]. Also, she wears rollerblades so she can twirl around and [[PantyShot activate her passion panties herself]] rather than waiting for a friend with a fan.

** In fact, 2/3 of the Arrancar seem to be evil counterparts of one member of the Gotei 13 or another: Ggio Vega and Shaolin "Soifon" Fon are both agile, fast and athletic melee fighters, who are generally calm, loyal and firm, and seem to have a fairly low view on their comrades. They even ''look'' similar, but where Soifon is a mostly cold and professional {{Tsundere}} that ''seriously'' [[DefrostingIceQueen fangirls]] over her [[LesYay female]] [[TallDarkAndBishoujo idol]], Ggio is a cocky and sarcastic taunter with a short fuse and 'bit of a boastful air to him, and the respect he harbors for his male commander appears to be more platonic. Furthermore, Soifon's antagonism towards her subordinates is mainly a pseudo-facade, her way of toughening them up, while Ggio appeared genuinely indifferent to his fellow [[EliteMook Fraccion]], barely reacting - if at all to their deaths.

** [[TheRival Natsu Tanimoto]], a.k.a. Loki the Fifth Fist of Ragnarok, had a brief Evil Counterpart in [[TheDragon Berserker]], the Second Fist, after Tanimoto defected from Ragnarok; while Tanimoto advocated hard work and training, Berserker was a naturally-gifted fighter with no formal training who could nevertheless give Tanimoto a sound thrashing during their clash. (It's played with, however, in that Tanimoto is currently going through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.)

** Fiamma of the Right is another counterpart to Touma, who even compares their powers and draws attention to their similarities. Both use their Right Hands to shatter something that someone worked desperately to obtain, except Touma uses his to solve the problems around him and Fiamma his own personal problems — selflessness versus selfishness. In their final battle, Touma points out the biggest difference between them: Fiamma observed the world and was disgusted by [[HumansAreBastards what he saw]], so he wanted to "save the world" by [[KillAllHumans wiping out the human race]]. Touma observed the world and saw evil people to fight and good people to protect.